The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17

Mr.. 0ccoom0 eane out ot 10:S0 O. m, and said
that no arrangements had rs yet been made for
the funeral further than providing that they
should be carried cut By Mr.. Hopper, Of Brook.
lyn. I-
Dr. 6cosic, he s0Ad had noticed 0 change In
the patients condition ot $40 o. m, ond sum-
snoned oil IN the house to the bedside. mo-
mentariiy expecting his death. but no fingered
much iongcr shAn had boon anticipated He
passed uway gradually und nlmost imporoept.
lilly,
DRAwIu0 HIs LAST BREATH
without apparent suffering or return TO con.
seriousness In ony do5ree. Mrs. Deecher, said
Mr.. Seceomh bore uD wonderfully end with
marvellous courage.
No Grape was hung on the door. Mr. Beesher
having always objected 70 the use Of this and
tho gloom associated with It in the presence Of
death. Instead . magnificent wreath Of flowers
hung from the left side Of tho Aoorwsy a the
top Of the stoop composed Of red and white
roses and Liiics sf the Valley and tied up with
white satin
Al 1880 II wss given cut that the funeral
would take place
IN GREENWOOD on THURSDAY NEXT.
Some time ngo Nr. H. w. Sage. member Of
Plymouth Church. appropriated by will o sum
Of money to place o statue Of Mr.. Beeeher In
Prospect Park, after his decease. Mr.. Quincy
Wood, the well known sculptor who is to do the
work. will cali at tho house In the course Of the
day for the purpose Of making plaster cast Of
his features. 1t is not intended shat any ex-
animation shaA be raadc Of Mr.. Beccher's brain
organism.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Horny Ward Beecher, who. two years oeo.w .was
pronounced by Gladstone one Of the Ave truly
great men living. the other four being according
to the grand old man, Victor Hugo, o. s. Grant,
Bismarck and Darwin, was born OF Litchdeld,
Conn. June 81, 1918, tho eighth child Of Lyman
and Roxann F'ooto Beecher. The convergence
OF two long lines of sturdy New England ances.
try is represented by tho union Of these names.
OF his childhood peried Mr. Beecher himself
says in his characteristic way.
II think was about Is well brought up as
most children, becauso was lot alone. Ny
father was so busy, and my mother had so many
other children 70 look atscr, that except here
and there, hardly came under the parental
hand at all. was brought up In New Eng
land village, ond knew whore tho sweet nag
was, where tho hickory trees were, whore the
chestnut trees werO where the sasssfrss trecs
were, where tho squirrels were where all those
things were that boys enterprise after: there
fore, I had o world of things to do; and 50 did
not come much In contact with family govern
ment."
His mother died whom no was but threc years
old. His devotion TO her memory amounted TO
. passion In after years. In one sermon he said
that no devout Catholic ever saw SO much In the
Virgin Mary a. ho had seen In Lis mother, who
had been presence to him over since he could
remember. He began his eduoatiou In little
school kept by Widow KilbourR, where the
idleness which gonorally prevailed was cmpha'
sized by the recital Of the alphabet twice daily.
From here he went 10 the district school.
At the age OF ten he was removed to the pSi'
vatc school OF the Rev. Nr. Langdon, at Beth
lehcm. and was then sent TO Hartford, where
his sister was tho head Of young ladies' school,
There he was the only hoy among about forty
girls. When he was twelve years old tho fnmi
ly removed to Boston, md the whole current Of
his liio was changed He entered the Boston
Latin School. where tho course Of study was re
pulsive and uncongenial to him. He afterward
said, In one of his sermons, that II he had moi
been taken out Of Boston In time nothing would
have prevented his going to destruction. The
boy, from reading books OF travel, hankered after
a life OF adventure. Under the pretense that q
training in mathematics and navigation was
necessary. he was sent by his father to Mount
Pleasant school, at Amhurst, Mass. There he
was under the special care of genial manly
young tencher, between whom and the boy Q
Arm friendship was compacted Under the in
struction Of this Mr.. Fitzgerald he made
good progress In mathematics, and the
difficulties In his voice, its indistinctness ant
thickness, were removed In o great measure, by
course Of clocution under Prot J. Il. Lowell
He Joined his fnthers church In Boston, wher
his dreams Of naval ambition were merged int
aspirations 70 enter the ministry. Two years o.
happiness at Mt Pleasant followed. Hi
preparation was thorough, and he might have
entered the Sophomore but he joined the Fresh
meLs ciass. He yrsdusted In 1854 and 5oinet
his father ct Cincinnati. whore DR.. Beecher 70
moved some two years before.
He next entered the Lane theological Sem
tnsry at Cincinnati, where he conceived strong
attachment for Prof. G. e. Stowe. sficrvard the
husband OF his sister, Harriet. Old Dr.. Lyman
was then professor In the seminary. The theo
logical views OF Henry Ward at this time can b<
summed up In tho following sentence: THE
salvation of humanity by Divine agency. through
tho salvatiou OF tndivtduals, was 70 him the
greet end 70 be obtained, but the mesns 70 thil
erd was o problem, tho 0omplextty o
which rendered him, - he neared the close o.
his theological course, the victim OF deep De
precision and doubt" After leaving college hs
received call to Lswrenceburg. lad. Thence
he was called TO Indianapolis where. wtsh hi
wife, whom he haA married before leaving Ctn
ctnnsti, he lived . simple, wholesome hfe OF tha
most Intense activity. From lndloaA1eais, are
slght yeass Of happy ministry, be YES called
PiymousA Church. IN Brooklyn. Re began ht
pastoral dutiss " Orange street. DseokAyn. o.
Sunday mogu1ng Oetobee 70. 1871.
The church - vhisA ". Beeohag ~ eesI
eaiied Oued ~ 0igh - we 1Ass. D W. thes'
were but thiEty.lirs sAssshss u nssokiyu,
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